People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — LI MIGHT BE EMPEROR? [ARTICLE]

LI MIGHT BE EMPEROR?

Discontented Masses In Southern China Ready to Make Him Their Rnler. Latest advices from China state that the new viceroy is bitterly hated by the masses. Large quantities of arms and ammunition are said to be pouring into the Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces through every available channel, and the viceroy is reported to be very uneasy because he has reason to believe that secret Societies are very active throughout southern China. It appears, in faot, that there is every prospect of the masses rising in the southern provinces in the near future, and in such a determined manner that the insurrection will not be easily suppressed. It is a step like this that would lead to the overthrow of the present Chinese dynasty, and all that is needed is for Li Hnng Chang to deolare in their favor to lead to his being emperor of China.— New York Journal.